pindento

Agreed, similar to Sarbane's Oxley ... do a lot of what they can to justify existence rather than what they should.

How it's possible that securing the transponder from inside the airplane hasn't already been implemented is beyond my belief. It's also incredible how the use of stolen passports has been minimized as 'business as usual'.

Everything seems to be pointing to what the airline industry should be self-imposing rather than TSA imposing on the traveling public.

petaluma1

And a request from Pistole to increase his force of mind-readers a/k/a BD"O"s.

HatAndJacket

They'll hire psychics and tarot card readers to to read your mind and make sure you are up to no good... don't worry it'll only add a few more minutes to your wait time in the security line and add another $5 fee to the cost of your ticket. Pre-check exempt.

gooselee

Pre-Check won't be exempt from the psychics, but they'll be able to go through the less intrusive and marginally quicker* crystal ball method.

*Until random inclusion begins filling the Pre-Check psychic line with pax who have no idea that they should hang on to their aura and don't need to stuff it in a tupperware to be sent through the x-ray.

DeafBlonde

They will also make you turn on your Kindle (or other eBook reader) and check it to make sure you are not reading subversive material...
...the list could go on, and on, and on...

daprophecy

Lol too funny.

BigJC

6. "Police" St. Patrick's Day parades... (:38)

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/27...l-weekend-long

If you thought you could avoid the blue rubber glove grasp of the TSA by avoiding airports altogether, you’ve got another thing coming.

chollie

How would airport security being armed have prevented MH370?

FliesWay2Much

There were two comments on the website -- both anti-TSA.

J S

Given the speculation that the pilots may have been involved, I expect that the TSA will take the only rational step: they will ban all pilots from boarding commercial airliners.

FredAnderssen

And it will. If you read comments on any of the websites reporting news of the missing airplane, most people are out for blood. "Why aren't there MORE checks of documents? Why are our authorities allowing passengers with fake or stolen documents on board airplanes?" Those in power at the Department of Homeland Security must be drooling at this fortuitous turn of events. It's an instant money-machine for the TSA.

The (figurative) blood that will be spilled here is of the people crying out for more security, which comes at an enormous cost, with little benefit, to all of us.

azcoyote

TSA side by side with ATC. Surely, having them in the tower listening to all transmissions, with their superior behavioral training, they can pick up on pre-subversive flight deck statements. Any flight whose crew member utters a "good night" over the air will be escorted by fighter to the nearest airfield.

saleenxp8

They are going to make us sit in isolation and take a fifty-question personality survey. Probably one that was written by Vladimir Putin.

TheRoadie

Transponders are one piece of gear that can fail in a way that a power cycling can reset. ATC says the data is missing or incorrect; the crew cycles power; all is well. Or the unit starts to smoke and turning off the power is a valid response.

Perhaps transponders can be designed with a maximum time they can be turned off, then secretly turn back on. But that's a countermeasure against a malicious pilot or clueful hijacker, both of whom have far more ways to do harm than a working transponder can thwart.

Being that this is a thread to discuss possible TSA responses - they'd probably love to have live, uninterruptable cockpit and cabin cams. Streaming the video along with flight and engine data to real time telemetry satellites built with a $50/segment security fee. Don't need a black box when you have aviation LoJacks.

goalie

"First and last name please and do you own a flight simulator?"